KEY STORYLINES AFRICA: Six people were killed in a bomb attack on an escort vehicle in Burkina Faso. AMERICAS: Former Congressman Ed Case won the Democratic Party primary to represent Honolulu in Congress. ASIA: A total of 50 militants including Taliban key commander Mullah Toofan laid down arms and surrendered to local authorities in the

KEY STORYLINES AFRICA: The latest Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo has put its neighboring countries on alert with the WHO. AMERICAS: A committee of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party denounced the recent extension of a U.S.-Japan nuclear pact. ASIA: US military says suicide bomber kills 3 NATO soldiers in Eastern Afghanistan; US soldier and

KEY STORYLINES AFRICA: Malians voted in a crucial presidential election as attacks disrupted polling in areas already beset by deadly ethnic and jihadist violence. AMERICAS: The death toll from the Carr wildfire in California grew to 7, as 38,000 people were evacuated from Shasta county. ASIA: Indian authorities effectively stripped four million people in Assam